Petrus ludouicus Maldura In Uitam sancti Rochi Contra Pestem Epidimie Apud d[omi]n[u]m dignissimi intercessoris Unacu[m] eiusdem Officio

by: Diedo, Francesco, -1484; Maldura, Petrus Ludovicus; Gresemund, Dietrich, approximately 1477-1512; Peter, von Friedberg, active 1493-1500, printer

Publication date: 1494

Topics: Rochus, Saint, approximately 1350-approximately 1380, Saints, Plague

Publisher: [Mainz : Peter von Friedberg]

Collection: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: Latin

Wrongly ascribed in the text to Petrus Ludovicus Maldura, who only wrote a postscript to the author, Francesco Diedo, in the original edition (Milan, 1479 [Goff D188])

Also contains the text of Officium Sancti Rochi [i.e., Missa de S. Rocha] on leaves b4v-b5v and an elegiac poem about St. Rochus by Dietrich Gresemund on the last leaf

Imprint from Goff

Signatures: a-b⁶

Printed on Chancery-size paper, 36 lines to a full page; area of text: 139 x 83 mm. With two printed Lombard initials and printed paragraph marks throughout; without foliation and catchwords. Rubrication not called for

Title leaf bears a woodcut illustration (112 x 99 mm.) of St. Rochus with an angel treating his wounds and a dog offering him bread

NLM copy, leaf size: 189 x 130 mm

NLM copy, marginal manuscript annotations in black ink on leaf b2v and in brown ink on leaf b4v partially lost due to excessive trimming

BM 15th cent.

BSB-Ink

Goff

GW

Klebs

Schramm, A. Bilderschmuck der frühdrucke

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel

Schullian, D.M. NLM Incun.

Microfilm

inspection and duplication of camera master microfilm deferred

Condition reviewed

digitized